Appetites Quotes

144 Appetites quotes by 116 unique authors

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God. — John Piper
He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The… — Colum McCann
I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am… — Walt Whitman
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that… — Eric Hoffer
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always,… — Oscar Wilde
Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have… — Rachel Caine
Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry… — William Shakespeare
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions — Stephen Covey
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing!… — David Mitchell
Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude… — Jack London
For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to… — Robert Farrar Capon
Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning… — Nikki Gemmell
Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of… — William Shakespeare
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You… — Frank Herbert
Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if… — Aldous Huxley
Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What… — Nick Hornby
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. — John Dryden
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial… — George Gilder
The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human… — Bill Moyers
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang. — Christopher Hitchens
When it comes to satisfying our spiritual appetites, there is no such thing as excess. There are no restraints placed on us by God. There… — Sam Storms
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his… — Horace
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should… — Max Stirner

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